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...answer simple questions," he says. "And it's not because I'm arrogant necessarily--though I know now that if I say, 'These questions are tedious,' it will indicate that I am arrogant--but there's just some things that I think run counter to the whole gig that I'm doing. As far as I'm concerned, the reality of Russell Crowe should be vanilla, and the viewer can add whatever it is they need to make it work for them...
...life. I began a romance, then married at 18 and became a mother at 19. And by that time, I was singing professionally at a college hangout called Michael's Pub in Boulder, Colo., for $100 a week, along with all the beer and pizza I wanted. That first gig supported our young family while my husband was in school, and it began my professional career as a folk singer...
...schedule and stick to it." His classmate Marielle Woods says she would love a night off, but that doesn't fit in with her plans to get into a top college. Last year on Ready, Set, Relax! night, she drove to New York City to audition for a gig as the voice-over narrator on a radio commercial. That's just one of about a dozen extracurricular activities she juggles while maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average. After a day of advanced-placement and honors classes, she spends two hours at tennis-team practice. And if she doesn't have...
Davis was born in 1925 in Harlem, the child of a chorus girl and a hardened vaudeville hoofer; that would be Sammy Davis Sr. Sr. took Jr. along on tour, and one afternoon little Sammy wandered onstage during a gig. Disaster loomed--but the audience laughed. A star was born. Davis...
...skillful as they are, the assembled band cannot replicate the chemistry of Matthews’ regular gig, particularly the infectious energy injected by drummer Carter Beauford. Chief Phish Trey Anastasio and longtime collaborator Tim Reynolds provide some agile guitar licks, but at times bring Devil rather close to standard guitar rock. This is not all bad—“Save Me” sounds like it could have come off Anastasio’s solo album, only graced by Matthews’ infinitely superior vocals...